THE SECRET BEHIND COLOURS

official source: A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 1

cross-references: none

this version: is the printed A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 1, 2nd edition, version 
	(spelling mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most 
	up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition.

	This cosmos is vibrational. This physical world, known as Prapainca (quinquelemental world), resides only within the scope of mental and supra-mental substance. Innumerable are the vibrations, but not infinite. Had they been infinite, creation too, would have been infinite. True, they are many, but not infinite. There are three chief colours--white, red and black. White indicates the sentient principle, red the mutative, and black the static principle. The singular Purus'a creates colours. With these colours, He attracts. If there were no attraction, created beings would not enjoy existence.

	"Ya eko varn'o bahudha' shakti yoga'd varn'a'naneka'n nihita'rtha dadha'ti
	Vicaeti ca'nte vishvama'dao sa devah sa no buddhya' shubhaya' sam'yunaktu"

	When the cause of many is one, that is noumenal. This expressed world is phenomenal.

	Why has this colorful world been created? It is because worldly people otherwise might not enjoy to remain in it, The child cries; then the mother supplies it with toys, so that it might keep on playing with them. For making toys, colours have been created. But what's the purpose, the actual intention? Its cause, its inner motive, is known only to Him. If it is disclosed, the secret will leak out. Then what's the idea? If what was secret is once known, people will try to be free; they will not try to remain with the colours of creation.

	These vibrational expressions are in that Purus'a. From that Purus'a alone these vibrations emerge. If we trace this vibration back and forth, we find only Purus'a, in the beginning as well as in the end.

	"Let not our intellect drift from kalya'na" (Spiritual good) should be our only prayer.

5 August 1978, Patna